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I know what blood poisoning is, Katniss," says Peeta. "Even if my mother isn't a healer." I'm jolted back in time, to… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Speaking to the Heart is a great encouragement to men who want to be better husbands and fathers. It is both a… — James Stenson Copy Share Image
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“Seeing her mama wiggle and swagger like that always reminded Sugar of her own shortcomings in this department. She knew the sort… — Sarah-Kate Lynch Copy Share Image
Well, I didn't feel that I could do justice to this story of my parents and their generation, and all that they… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
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I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I’m good,” she replied. “But thanks. My mother didn’t raise me to be violent.” “Neither,” observed the Gray Man, “did mine.” He… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
There are many out there who plead and pray for help. There are those who are discouraged, those who are beset by… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
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Step-parenting and being a step-sibling presents a lot of exciting opportunities. When families break up and re-form, there may be less order,… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
“Differences across social lines in schooling aspirations—initially those of parents and later those of children—are one of the ways the long shadow… — Karl Alexander Copy Share Image
“My lady,” Tyrion said. “You are lovely, make no mistake, but … I cannot do this. My father be damned. We will… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Past the sloping green lawn of the park, I entered a new world, regal and historic. Here I walked on swept sidewalks,… — Andrew Cotto Copy Share Image
The same way all the people I love factor in—my parents, my sister, my girlfriend [Lena Dunham], my best friend, all the… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
I remember one time there were kids calling my parents dirty because they had dreadlocks. That really bothered me and when I… — Cedella Marley Copy Share Image
When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New… — Michael King Copy Share Image
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For my father the one calamity was that my brother and sister and I never learned to swim. My father, who was… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
My biggest ambition when I was younger was to appear on stage at what was then Nimrod, which is the theatre where… — David Wenham Copy Share Image
I was the center on our fraternity team, but I was a center-eligible, so I was known for my ability to go… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
The best compliment is when other parents invite your children to come over, or stay overnight. Afterward, I hear how well-behaved and… — Greg Vaughan Copy Share Image
My mother Molly had a nervous breakdown after my father Chic died, aged 50. He was a very generous man who ran… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
“When the Holy Father passed away in 2005, Laura, Dad, Bill Clinton, and I flew together to his funeral in Rome. It… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
My parents both worked; I was a 'latchkey kid.' We were lower-middle class, and they did everything that they could to give… — Michelle Visage Copy Share Image
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